The future imaginary in indigenous North American arts and literatures /
"This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity bu...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "turning our backs on Mars"
- futures seen through the window of an indigenous starship
- Futureanalysis: toward a critical paradigm
- Apocryphal futures: indegenous and other archives
- Part I: (Un)writing the future: textual imaginaries
- Apocalypse and the archive in Gerald Vizenor's Future World novels
- Textuality and futurity in Stephen Graham Jones's The fast red road, The bird is gone, and Ledfeather
- Part II; (Dis)Simulating the future: imaginaries in cyberspace
- The future is technological: virtual archives in Skawennati's Timetraveller
- The future is soverign: post-American imaginaries in 2167
- The future is female: Skawennati's She falls for ages and The peacemaker returns
- Conclusion: the future as a strategy.